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The LDs would fancy their chances if Parish resigns – politicalbetting.com
The LDs would fancy their chances if Parish resigns – politicalbetting.com
Sky News understands Neil Parish is now likely to quit within hours after massive pressure from friends on him to step downThe Tory “porn MP” has been told by allies his position untenable because of the way he kept quiet and allowed speculation form about Tory colleagues.
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So much depends on candidate selection and establishing a clear narrative of being the only possible alternative to the incumbent.
I do live this guy though. "accidentally" googled "Step Mom Fucked" whilst in the Commons. Says its a "weight off his shoulders" now he's been outed instead of having various colleagues suspected. Says he will "carry on" until suddenly his position is untenable. No wonder he has a big majority, a big brain on this one.
So, gets to take the Chiltern Hundreds for the crime of accidentally watching Backdoor Sluts 9, but his boss still thinks lying to parliament and breaking your own laws is fine. Its another good day for the "We Are The Party Of Law And Order" Tory Party
"Why haven't the police investigated" - they have
"It was illegal" - posting documents showing it was legal
"Where did they stay" - ignoring that hotels were open
And eventually we get to the truth - "its unfair on Boris"
More on #C4News https://twitter.com/darshnasoni/status/1520372676086448128
Will Lib Dems give way to Labour in Tiverton?
Or will neither give way and let Conservatives back in?
Do have to laugh though. "Its a work event" accepted without question with the PM's fiance there by teh same people now screeching on Twitter about "conspiracies"
Also, was she there at the same time, ie when that photo was taken?
So the question is whether sufficient numbers are motivated to kick the Tories in this seat. I'd think the signs are promising at the least, even though it being such a bloody big majority still makes it hard.
They need this to coincide with the expected Yorkshire one, and perhaps even Hodge Hill too.
As campaigning was legal, their presence was legal. Their overnight stay in a hotel was legal. The police looked at it and concluded that as campaigning was legal there was nothing to investigate.
It was legal.
So it doesn't matter at all whether she was or wasn't, or that some aide didn't have the facts when asked.
But I wondered if the spokesman’s original denial (“she wasn’t there”) was strictly accurate in the sense that Rayner was not in the room when Keir had his beer, and only looks slightly misleading in hindsight.
If Boris wants to use this as “lie”, let him.
His word is worthless, and if Keir has any competence he’ll find an appropriate response.
Hence the LDs are the Tories main opponents in the former but Labour are the Tories main opponents in the latter
"We all do porn - but this daft sod got caught. At work. But he was a good constituency MP, so ho-hum...."
At least, I think that's the situation.
Although, is it true that all the voters of T&H “do porn”?
I thought most of it was made in California, and certain Eastern European countries.
By the nads, probably.
https://www.gbnews.uk/news/neil-parish-to-resign-as-mp-for-tiverton-and-honiton-as-he-is-investigated-for-allegedly-watching-porn-in-commons/284515
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcdzZ5zRZgg
"Why did you lie that she wasn't there"
"We didn't knowingly lie - she wasn't in the photo which was the question"
"Ah so she WAS there. The police need to investigate"
"As it was legal for her to be there they already investigated and there is nothing to look at as it was legal for her to be there"
Its genuinely funny that the party of lies and crime is so desperately pushing this.
In an exclusive interview with BBC South West, he said: "The situation was that - funnily enough it was tractors I was looking at. I did get into another website that had a very similar name and I watched it for a bit which I shouldn't have done. But my crime - biggest crime - is that on another occasion I went in a second time."
Asked if that was deliberate he said: "That was deliberate... that was sitting waiting to vote on the side of the chamber."…
One time you might get away with this , the second time looks very stupid .
There are television cameras all over the HoC chamber. Are they capable of see mobile phone screens?
Also do MPs regularly look at their phones during debates?
“Funnily enough”.
This is up there with “Funnily enough, I don’t sweat due to a bizarre condition I picked up in the Falklands”.
For this alone he must resign.
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2. Neil Parish
Helena Wilkinson@BBCHelena· 8m
In an interview with the @bbcmartynoates Neil Parish has admitted watching pornography twice in the House of Commons.
Mr Parish said the first time was accidental after looking at tractors, but the second time was deliberate
https://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61284686
https://twitter.com/ruskin147/status/1520399767305695232
Maybe it was backhoes....
God almighty, this is 1992-7 Redux.
There was an interesting case in WA State just over a dozen years ago, when guy who was a Republican state representative, was attending a committee hearing on other side of state, decided to go to local porno store that evening, and hooked up with a male companion.
Next morning, he discovered that his "friend" had stolen his wallet. So he called the local police to report the crime, assuming that they'd keep mum re: circumstances, because he was a fire-fighter. Unfortunately for him, the cops ratted him out to the press. And due to the media coverage, he was forced to resign.
At that point, local Republicans in his district had to chose a temporary replacement. Their pick was a young Hispanic woman who was a conservative Christian and active GOPer; in fact she was an aide to Republican congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rogers, a member of US House GOP leadership.
She won the subsequent special election rather easily. Her name - Jamie Herrera Beutler. She went on to run for and win election herself to Congress - and was one of the ten House Republicans who voted to impeach 45 after his attempted Putsch.
JHB is running for re-election, opposed by MAGA maniac. And she's gonna get re-elected, thanks to Washington State's Top Two primary. because the two who advance to the general will be her and the Putinist. And she will win, thanks to sane Republicans AND Democrats.
Equivalent to what?
It's not the end of the world but it has been sloppily and incompetently handled. It unnecessarily hands Johnson and the Tory press something to misrepresent, and feeds a All as bad as each other narrative.
Our hatred of the tories will unite us.
And from the looks of it pre 2015 Tiverton was a seat where the LDs would typically be second, whereas North Shropshire Labour were traditionally second for the last 20 years.
Fairly sure this isn’t the Ukrainians, as it’s several thousand miles away.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Liveuamap/status/1520285786880491522
Russian Far East: Fire at GRES-2 Power plant in Sakhalin this morning https://russia.liveuamap.com/en/2022/30-april-fire-at-gres2-power-plant-in-sakhalin-this-morning
Though a number of those forcibly deported are somewhere in the vicinity.
The Tories got it wrong in Shropshire, the LDs nailed it. Made all the difference.
As long as Head Office doesn't try to parachute in one of Boris's chums the Conservatives should be ok.
Representative Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina, once a bright young star in the conservative firmament, finds himself besieged by accusations and insinuations.
Besieged by multiplying scandals and salacious accusations, Representative Madison Cawthorn, Republican of North Carolina, is under mounting pressure from both parties to end his short career in Congress.
In rapid succession, Mr. Cawthorn, who entered Congress as a rising star of the party’s far right, has been accused of falsely suggesting that his Republican colleagues routinely throw cocaine-fueled orgies, insider trading and an inappropriate relationship with a male aide. This week, he was detained at an airport, where police said he tried to bring a loaded handgun onto an airplane, the second time he has attempted that.
That came just days after pictures surfaced of him wearing women’s lingerie as part of a cruise ship game, imagery that might not go over well in the conservative stretches of his Western North Carolina district. And last month he was charged with driving with a revoked license for the second time since 2017.
The deluge of revelations and charges have left him on an island even within his own party. A political group supporting Senator Thom Tillis, Republican of North Carolina, has been pouring money into an ad campaign accusing Mr. Cawthorn of being a fame-seeking liar. The group is supporting the campaign of a more mainstream Republican, State Senator Chuck Edwards, who is running against Mr. Cawthorn. And the far-right, anti-establishment wing of the party now views the first-term congressman with similar skepticism, as someone who is falsely selling himself as a gatekeeper in his state to former President Donald J. Trump.
After initially blaming Democrats for the onslaught, Mr. Cawthorn on Friday said it was Republicans who were targeting him because he threatens the status quo.
“I want to change the GOP for the better, and I believe in America First,” he wrote on Twitter. “I can understand the establishment attacking those beliefs, but just digging stuff up from my early 20s to smear me is pathetic.”
At 26 years old, Mr. Cawthorn is not far removed from his early 20s, and Republicans running to unseat him in the May 17 North Carolina primary said the drumbeat of revelations could put his seat at risk if he secures the nomination for a second term. . . .
SSI - Sad to see them piling on against this latest recruit to the cause of Ukrainian Freedom - NOT.
Majority gone by Autumn at this rate.
In October 2011, the House agreed to allow the use of hand-held electronic devices (but not laptops) in the Chamber, provided that they are silent and used in a way which does not impair decorum
https://erskinemay.parliament.uk/section/4887/electronic-devices-phones-and-cameras/
Hope you are keeping well BTW
Perhaps a DAS
Before I retired from school I remember trying to access PB in my lunchtime and getting blocked by the firewall. I then had to go cap in hand to the head explaining that it may have had betting in the title but I was there for the politics.
Johnson with forbidden fruit that means Johnson is innocent of all spurious charrges